Name: First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop on Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers – Potential for a Paradigm Shift
Start: 2012-08-30T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-09-02T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily)

First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop on Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers – Potential for a Paradigm Shift

from Thursday, August 30, 2012 (8:00 AM) to Sunday, September 2, 2012 (7:00 PM)

Monday, August 27, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012

8:00 AM Adjunct Workshop: The latest enabling technological breakthroughs in compact radiation sensors, electronics and software for PET and SPECT Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - August 30-31,2012
Adjunct Workshop: The latest enabling technological breakthroughs in compact radiation sensors, electronics and software for PET and SPECT Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - August 30-31,2012
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

8:45 AM

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The role of dedicated advanced detectors in modern molecular imaging. What is missing in the standard scanners - Alberto Del Guerra
9:25 AM
9:25 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:25 AM New scintillators for SPECT, PET and TOFPET - W. Moses

9:50 AM Cherenkov radiation in medical imaging - P. Lecoq
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:15 AM Progress on the Hamamatsu SIPM (MPPC) - K.K Koei Yamamoto

10:40 AM STMicroelectronics Photodetectors Technology – From SPAD to Analog SiPMs - G. Fallica

11:35 AM Strategies to Obtain Time of Flight Resolution in the 100 Picosecond Range. - D. Schaart

12:00 PM Digital SiPM: Approaching the Cramer-Rao Limit in TOF-PET, Reliably and Robustly - E Charbon
12:20 PM
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

12:20 PM The Role of FPGAs and Reconfigurable Acquisition in Future PET/SPECT Systems - A. Veerappan
12:50 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Developments in ASIC chips - A. Rivetti

4:25 PM High-Speed Electronics for PET Systems - W. Moses
4:50 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
5:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

5:20 PM MR Basics and PET/MR Interferences - H. Wehrl
5:50 PM
5:50 PM - 7:25 PM
Contributions

5:50 PM Introductory talk: “Image quality – The role of software and what is indeed needed from the high performance detector. Resolution or efficiency?” - N. Clinthorne

6:15 PM Algorithms for imaging techniques (accuracy, speed, required computing power, and related challenges) - Spatial resolution/efficiency trade-off (pattern vs small lesions detection) - E. Cisbani

6:40 PM Reconstruction Techniques (SPECT) - B. Tsui
Friday, August 31, 2012

8:00 AM Adjunct Workshop: The latest enabling technological breakthroughs in compact radiation sensors, electronics and software for PET and SPECT Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - August 30-31,2012
Adjunct Workshop: The latest enabling technological breakthroughs in compact radiation sensors, electronics and software for PET and SPECT Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - August 30-31,2012
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 9:35 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Incorporating anatomical information in PET image reconstruction - D. Visvikis

9:10 AM Partial volume effect (PVE) issue: instrumental and biological components - I. Buvat
9:35 AM Coffee break/poster
Coffee break/poster
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Excursion Siracusa
Excursion Siracusa
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Saturday, September 1, 2012

8:00 AM “First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop: Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers - Potential for a Paradigm Shift" Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - September 1-2 2012
“First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop: Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers - Potential for a Paradigm Shift" Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - September 1-2 2012
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM Welcome address - F. Garibaldi
Welcome address
- F. Garibaldi
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Molecular brain imaging: history and state of the art - Vesna Sossi (Vancouver)

9:30 AM Neuroimaging: what can we learn from qualitative and quantitative functional brain imaging - Vesna Sossi (Vancouver)

10:30 AM PET in Neuroscience and Drug Development - C. Halldin

11:00 AM Multimodality operation of PET detectors with MRI/fMRI - B Pichler
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Physiopathology of cerebral ischemia and clinical need for Imaging - F. Orzi
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:05 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM FDG and Amyloid imaging in Alzheimer's disease - A. Chiaravalloti

2:05 PM Molecular Imaging of Parkinson disease - A. Varrone

2:40 PM Neurodegeneration markers from structural MRI and FDG-PET brain images: the Alzheimer’s disease case study - A. Chincarini
3:05 PM Coffee brak
Coffee brak
3:05 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM
3:20 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

3:20 PM Molecular imaging in psychiatry - P. Stenkrona

3:45 PM Investigating behavioral disorders by neuroimaging - P. Stenkrona
4:10 PM Excursion Taormina
Excursion Taormina
4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

7:30 PM Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012

8:00 AM “First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop: Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers - Potential for a Paradigm Shift" Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - September 1-2 2012
“First Mediterranean Thematic Workshop: Advanced Molecular Brain Imaging with Compact High Performance MRI-Compatible PET and SPECT Imagers - Potential for a Paradigm Shift" Giardini di Naxos (Taormina, Sicily) - September 1-2 2012
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Dedicated PET-MRI-fMRI detectors for brain - H. Herzog

9:10 AM Molecular Imaging of therapeutic cells: pre-clinical and clinical studies - G. Marfia

9:35 AM Dedicated innovative SPECT detectors for brain - B. Tsui

10:00 AM Dedicated innovative PET detectors for brain - S. Majewski

10:55 AM High Resolution Brain SPECT Imaging Technologies and Clinical Performances - B. Kari
11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
12:10 PM Summary talks and “Round Table Discussion” on the theme - P. Jehenson F. Garibaldi
Summary talks and “Round Table Discussion” on the theme
- P. Jehenson
- F. Garibaldi
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
“How can we develop and utilize the novel enabling imaging technologies for brain research and also to advance individual patient care at EU and at the international level“ Following the confirmation of the already identified but also of the new potential applications, an attempt will be made to identify the main areas to be developed by the imaging community, where the application-specific focus will most likely result in a positive impact for the brain imaging research area and for clinical patient care.
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

5:30 PM

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM